Circles of Trust

I had the opportunity yesterday to walk the streets of New York. A bright day after a cleansing storm. The colors and people were animated with survival and hope. Artists offered their work and conversation and people on every corner were signaling to others, making connections, sliding into warm familiarity over coffee and conversation. Watching strangers, who were not strangers to one another, made me think about the importance of relationships, circles, people we can count on in a storm, or for a friendly meal and conversation. How God abides in relationships and is revealed as we reach out to one another.


"No one can snatch them out of my hand...no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one." John 10:28-30

Even Jesus is not without the need and impact of relationship. His trust and sense of belonging comes from the intimacy he has with the Father, and with those he knows to be in his care. There is no distant from God to his circle of care, and in that lack of distance and intimacy of relationship, we all are safe and entrusted to God.
So today, I want to do the work of creating and renewing circles of trust. It is easy, because of busy-ness and distance to lose touch. Reaching out makes tangible for me the intimate connections we have with one another and with God. It is easy to lose sight of connections. After our storms we need to be reminded of the deep embedded nature of God, the deep connectivity that is the reality of the heart of God and which is displayed most graphically between people. May we all make an effort to renew our circles, to breath new life, so that we might all know God's care and affection in new ways.